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(No Model.)

B. L. sToWE. HOSE.

No. 460,925. Patented 0ot.6,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN Il. STOVE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y..

Hos-E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,925, dated October6, 1,891.

Application filed April 2, 1890. Renewed September l2, 1891. Serial No.405,460. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN L. S'roWE, of the city, county,and State ofNew York,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hose, of whichthe following is a specification,

My invention is directed to what is known as jacketed hose for hydraulicpurposes. It is my purpose to produce an improved knitted hose of thischaracter. To this end the fabric portion of the hose consists of aseamless knitted interior tube, the looped stitches of which are uponthe innersurface, and a separate exterior jacket of a seamless knittedtubular fabric, the looped stitches of which are upon theexteriorsurface. By having the looped stitches of the interior tube uponthe inner surface thereof I procure a smooth inner surface for therubber lining which is applied to this tube and a smooth Water-Way inthe lined hose. I also produce a hose whose inner fabric dries morereadily than it would were the looped stitches upon the exterior of saidfabric. By placing the looped stitches of the knitted jacket upon theexterior surface thereof I obtain the same effective wearing-surfacethatis possessed by ordinary j acket-hose. The hose thus produced is ineffect a compound hose comprising a knitted inner hose and a knittedexterior jacket or hose. The two can be manufactured in any of the knownways in which knitted hose is made, the only requisite being that whenthe two are fitted together after they have been produced the interiorsurface of the inner hose and the exterior surface of the jacket orouter hose shall each be provided With the smooth surface afforded bythe looped stitches of a knitted fabric.

I prefer that each of the two parts of the hose shall be a knittedfabric which has the knitting thread or threads combined with a weft orfilling and straight longitudinal strands, as described in a genera-lway, for example, in my Letters Patent No. 393,185, of November 20,1888,or No.,22'2,327,of December 2, 1879.

My improved compound or jacketed knit hose is represented in theaccompanying drawings, in which* A Figure l is a cross-section of thehose, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of one side of a portion ofthe hose.

In the actual hose the strands are of course tightly packed together.They are represented, however, in the drawings as widely .separated inorder that their` arrangement and the structure of the fabric can betterbe seen.

In Fig. l I have omitted from a portion of the compound hose thelongitudinal strands and knitting-threads.

The inner hose is indicated at A and the exterior or jacket hose at B.

C is the rubber lining for the interior of the inner hose. Y

In each part A and B, a. are the knitting threads or warps, Z) are thestraight longitudinal strands, and c is the weft or filling.

In the inner hose A the looped stitches of the knitting-warps are uponthe inieriorsurface thereof. In the external or jacket hose B thecorresponding looped stitches are upon the exterior surface thereof.After the two are made the jacket-hose is drawn over the inner hose, sothat the looped stitches of the two shall occupy in the compound hosethe position last above indicated.

The rubber lining may be applied to the inner hose either before orafter the two parts A and B are fitted together.

Having described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

A compound seamless knit hose consisting of an inner seamlessknithosehaving looped stitches upon its interior surface, an external seamlessknit jacket or hose having looped stitches upon its exterior surface,and a rubber lining applied to the surface afforded by the loopedstitches upon the interior of the inner hose, substantially ashereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this lst day of April,1890.

BENJAMIN L. S'lOlVE.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK A. SToWE, NATHAN STowE.

